If you travel around the world, you sometimes find yourself marveling at just how many different cultures can intersperse every second word with an expletive. It's a talent that some might say the British have turned into something resembling an art form, as long as you have a refined interpretation of what constitutes art.

I am therefore expleting with joy that an English city has been named, by the politically correct techies at Foursquare, as the world's rudest.

How did Foursquare come to this conclusion? Well, in a post on the the company's engineering blog, Matthew Rathbone, an engineer who describes himself as a "proud British midlander" (this may be a first), explained that Foursquare is looking to make sense of all the data it has at its disposal.

In this example, he looked at all the world's English-speaking cities. (Glasgow was out, then.) He analyzed which of them featured Foursquare tips including words that might not be welcome at a place of worship.

The northern English city of Manchester flew to the top of the table, as if it were borne on cursed wings. You will be wondering which city came second. Please bow and scrape to El Paso, Texas, which wasn't far behind Manchester in words you'd rather leave behind.

Strangely, Pittsburgh, a town where they really do have good reason to curse at all hours of the day, only came a slightly distant third, followed by Bloomington, In., (surely you won't blame Bobby Knight--he left years ago) and Riverside, Calif.

British news organizations offered their own interpretations of Manchester's blessed supremacy. Metro.co.uk, for example, suggested4: "We can only assume that it's lots of people saying things like 'try the f***ing lamb' or 'the mojitos are the the t**s."

14 Feb 2011--A 400-pound woman was allegedly caught shoplifting and was subsequently tasered after her motorised cart got stuck when she was trying to escape.

Jerrie Perkins, 30, allegedly tried to steal $600 worth of electronic goods from a Meijer store in Pontiac, Michigan. Her attempt was foiled, however, when her motorised cart got stuck in the exit door.

When staff heard the door alarm activating they asked her for the receipts. It was at this point she got violent and police were called.

Perkins has been charged with unarmed robbery, resisting and obstructing a police officer and second-degree retail fraud.

Oakland County Sheriff's Office said she allegedly shoved the store's loss-prevention officer and hit her in the face. When a deputy arrived and asked the 30-year-old to put her hands behind her back, she "cursed at the deputy, balled her right hand into a fist and took a fighting stance."

The deputy then pulled his Taser and told Perkins (above right) to put her hands behind her back. Instead she brought her fist up over her head and looked directly at the deputy, who then tasered her.

It was only then that she complied with his commands and was promptly taken to jail.